Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1)

That was my old go-to, but I’m not sure how up to date it is. Also, it doesn’t have salmon species.

I did just find

which has a lot more info, but no easy way to find or link to distance.

In the case of camels and salmons, their common clade is Euteleostomi (bony vertebrates) at 430Mya. while the common clade with hagfishes is Vertebrata (vertebrates) at 525Mya.

I should have said field hockey :slight_smile:
For us up north hockey means only one thing !

Perhaps this is common knowledge, but I just learned the tomb of Cleopatra remains undiscovered.

Su Tissue (Sue McLane) was the lead singer for Suburban Lawns. She disappeared in the mid 1980s. One fan claims to have tracked her down, but is not revealing any more info in order to respect her privacy.

A similar, but even more prominent case (at least for the UK, where the Manic Street Preachers were and still are a very successful and renowned band): Richey Edwards, their rhythm guitarist and main songwriter, vanished in February 1995.

Did you notice this link in that article? @Johnny_L.A was looking for her in 2009.

If ‘fish’ don’t exist … then sharks and whales are fish after all.

Snopes Fact-Checking also includes plagiarizing.

I read in an old Mad magazine ducks can not fly: they are actually great jumpers.

I wondered about them skating barefoot.

Apparently this is well known to many people, but this city boy didn’t know chickens will roost in trees. We just stayed at a bed and breakfast that keeps chickens that would go up pretty high in the branches to sleep.

Me too.

Yesterday I learned that EMS isn’t considered an essential service, which is why they’re constantly cash strapped and fundraising and why ambulance services are so expensive.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver did a story about funding issues with EMS services a couple of weeks ago.

Today I learned how Isaac Newton came up with a new way to calculate pi. It was much more efficient than the method that was used for thousands of years prior.

That’s where I learned it!

You’re all probably familiar with how the four corners of a square can be folded in to make a square exactly half as big. What I stumbled across was a generic method of doing this for any rectangle not just a perfect square. Example below:

I’ve been reading The Batman Chronicles Volumn I; the original Batman stories in chronological stories.

I know Bill Finger is getting his due (it was no secret to people interested in comics history – Jim Sterenko talked about Finger in his history of comics in the 70s), but noticed that, of the first eight Batman stories, Finger only wrote 2 1/2. The other 5 1/2 were credited to Gardner Fox (one of the top writers of the golden and silver age). Fox created the utility belt and Batarang, plus the Batgyro, which morphed into the Batplane. No Batmobile, but the Batman did have a powerful car (whose color varied).

I had known the Batman originally worked in New York.

Also the comic didn’t worry about continuity. After a two-part adventure in Europe (fighting vampires!) Batman is back home the next issue, but is back in Paris (immediately after the vampire adventure) the issue after that.

Obviously racking up the airplane miles so he can fly first class at some point.

Some folks in US suburbs keep chickens. Last year an unknown neighbor’s chicken escaped and started roosting in a tree in our yard. Every evening at the same time, like clockwork, she’d hop from branch to branch until she was a good five feet off the ground. Same branch every night. You could spook her out of there if you approached while there was still daylight, but once it got dark out, she absolutely would not come down off of that branch. OK, maybe I wasn’t trying hard enough, but I could approach to within touch distance, shake the branch moderately hard, shine the flashlight on me instead of her, and she just wouldn’t budge.

A few weeks later there was a pile of feathers in the yard; I’m guessing a fox got her.